Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.

One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to... See more

The role of the creator and how his/or her signa-ture is placed upon any artistic work, begged the enormous question of at-tribution and valuation dating back at least to the Renaissance period of the fourteenth century onward, and the development and secularization in all the arts in the western world came to be increasingly dependent on the... See more